Helen was a graduate of Froebel High School in 1950, received a B.A. in
English from Indiana University Northwest where she then served as Assistant
to the Dean of Arts and Sciences for over 25 years, was a member of the
alumni association from which she received the President’s Award as Alumni
of the Year in 1998. She was co-founder of the School for Emotionally
Disturbed Children in Park Forest, Ill., listed in Who’s Who of American
Women, a former member of Altrusa and had also worked at the Southwell
Institute for Mental Health.